Column that contains text displays as date in filter

[Justplainj]

HI All,

I have a weird problem (well weird for me)
Figure 1: is the column that from source data to data loaded and applied is formatted as text.
Figure 2: is how the column looks like in power bi desktop data view.
Figure 3: When I add this column to use as a filter on the page it changes to dates.

I am not sure what is going on or how to fix it.

Thanks J

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

 

[Justplainj]

Update.

When I add the column to a slicer visualization it works correctly.

Currently using dropdown style

Thanks J